cullompton

The forgotten wartime wrecks lying off our shores

Event Date: 
12/10/2015 - 9:00am to 18/12/2015 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Cullompton services on the M5 (Junction 28): Old Station Yard, Old Station Road, Cullompton, EX15 1NS

Cullompton services is currently home to a fascinating exhibition which looks to raise the profile of under-represented aspects of the First World War.

The temporary display, which runs until December 18th, offers a great chance to view recovered artefacts and learn about some of the lesser-known, but compelling, stories of the Great War.

Over 700 wartime wrecks are known to lie off the south coast of England. These include largely forgotten ships and craft of all shapes and sizes, which were carrying out a myriad of different tasks and activities when they were lost....

Exhibition explores forgotten wartime wrecks

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 06/30/2015 - 10:22am

Cullompton services is currently home to a fascinating exhibition which looks to raise the profile of under-represented aspects of the First World War.

The temporary display, which runs until December 18th, offers a great chance to view recovered artefacts and learn about some of the lesser-known, but compelling, stories of the Great War.

Over 700 wartime wrecks are known to lie off the south coast of England. These include largely forgotten ships and craft of all shapes and sizes, which were carrying out a myriad of different tasks and activities when they were lost....

Opportunity Hub launches in Mid Devon

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 06/23/2015 - 10:19am

Learn Devon and Devon Libraries have launched a new Opportunity Hub at The Hayridge, Cullompton, providing a programme of employability courses to help people develop their skills and get into work.

The Opportunity Hub will take place every Wednesday from 10.30am-12.30pm at The Hayridge, Exeter Hill, Cullompton EX15 1DJ. People can join at any time. There is no need to book, they can just turn up.

The courses are free and aimed at people who are out of work. Participants will work independently on skills and qualifications according to their needs and aspirations. Courses...

A Glimpse of Tudor Life

Event Date: 
20/06/2015 - 10:00am
Venue: 
The Walronds, Fore Street, Cullompton

Celebrating the First Anniversary of the official opening of the Walronds, Cullompton there will be a fantastic Tudor Fayre. After nearly 4 years under scaffold, on 13th June 2014 HRH The Duke of Gloucester officially opened the restored and renovated Walronds in Fore Street, Cullompton. In the intervening 12 months the house has been used by a large number of groups for a variety of purposes and volunteers have worked tirelessly in the gardens to provide a charming and relaxing space for the local community to enjoy.

To mark the anniversary, the Cullompton Walronds Preservation...

Exeter Family Friendly raise £2.5k

A team of executives from Exeter Family Friendly raised £2675 for Devon-based charity Rainbow Living after cycling 72 miles from Wellington to Salcombe.

Starting at 8:30am, Exeter Family’s Andy Chapman (CEO), Simon Philp, Paul Austin, Alan Ord and Adrian Hodgkinson crossed the finish line at 16:30pm, to raise money for the protection provider’s charity of the year.

Rainbow Living provide housing for adults with learning disabilities so they can live with their peers in supported accommodation and the funds raised from the cycle will go towards the charity’s third house....

Pop-up Opera comes to Devon

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 06/08/2015 - 10:13pm

2015 has already seen Pop-up Opera return with a dazzling production of Mozart’s comic opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail that could transform the way you think about opera as an art form (Britishtheatre.com). Now, they’re back with L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian girl in Algiers).

Rossini meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, against a backdrop of glitz and grit at the Algiers Hotel, Nevada. Hotel employee, Lindoro, is down on his luck and in debt to the Algiers' corrupt and extravagant owner, Mustafa. Lindoro's Italian-American girlfriend, Isabella, arrives in Vegas under the...

Hard work pays off for apprentices

A Devon company is proving its Cullompton recruited through leading national apprenticeship and training provider Positive Outcomes are a credit to a business – rewarding them with themed fun days and exotic holiday breaks as part of the firm’s work hard, play hard mantra. Adopstar, an advertising company based in Cullompton in Devon, recently recruited two new apprentices through Positive Outcomes, and has since rewarded them with fun activities including holidays, day trips and even dress up days in the office. Mark Warren, 21, an IT apprentice at Adopstar, started working for the...

Cyclist dies after collision in Devon

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 04/27/2015 - 11:38am

A woman has died following a collision in Cullompton on Friday.

The woman was cycling along Old Hill, Cullompton around 5.30pm on 24th April when she collided with a road sign.

Paramedics and police attended the scene and the woman was taken to the RD& E via land ambulance where sadly she died.

She is thought to be a Romanian national in her 40s. Her next of kin are being traced.

No other vehicles are believed to have been involved in the collision.

The road was closed until 11pm while investigations at the scene took place.

Any witnesses...

Did you witness fatal M5 crash near Exeter?

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:40pm

Police are renewing their appeal for witnesses following a collision on the M5 northbound near Cullompton in which a woman died.

Police and other emergency services were called to the scene of the fatal collision involving a car and a lorry just after 12.10pm on Tuesday 27 January.

The collision involving a heavy goods vehicle and a silver Vauxhall Omega happened about one mile before junction 28, Cullompton.

Investigating officers would like to hear from anyone who was travelling in the southbound carriageway of the M5 in the opposite direction, and who may have...

Woman dies in M5 collision

Police are appealing for witnesses to a collision on the M5 northbound near Cullompton in which a woman died.

Police and other emergency services were called to the scene of the fatal collision involving a car and a lorry just after 12.10pm on Tuesday 27 January.

The collision involving a heavy goods vehicle and a silver Vauxhall Omega happened about one mile before junction 28, Cullompton.

The car driver, a 57-year-old woman from Tiverton, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The male car passenger was not injured.

The lorry driver, a 64-year-old man...

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